Quote of the Hour: Historical Costumes

I collect too many quotes for this weekly "feature," and then run an hourly version twice a year, on a Sunday near a major holiday. It's that time again.

Most of his evening guests - their purchases are so infrequent that it would be misleading to call them customers - wear white felt hats and overcoats of a style known to them as English Drape. Short men peer up from between the wide-flung shoulders of these coats as if they had been lowered into the garments on a rope and were now trying to climb out.

 - A.J. Liebling, "Broadway Storekeeper," in The Jollity Building (p.414 in The Sweet Science and Other Writings)